Word: gainful
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...pound weight are closely contested by Franklin B. Snyder '38, Bellboy, G. F. Fox ocC, from Eliot, Ralph B. Murphy '39, another Bellboy, and Graham B. Blaine, Jr. '40 of the Elephants. Blaine showed considerable knowledge of wrestling when he pinned Daniel Weiss '39 of the Deacons to gain his position...
...activate our economy we can rely on the profits system and the hope of gain, or we can try the new European ideas of state regulation and the fear of punishment. We can try either, but we can't try both at the same time...
...group of poets to the U. S., from Yeats and T. S. Eliot to Sandburg and Edna St. Vincent Millay. Almost every contemporary English and American poet of distinction appeared in its pages or was involved in its battles. But although readers of A Poet's Life can gain some insight into modern poetry, may pick up minor items of literary information (such as Louis Untermeyer's smug dismissal of Eliot's first poems), they are likely to be left wondering how so much literary excitement could have been made so dull in the telling...
...year. But baseball, it seems, has become the most neglected of the seven majors. The Athletic Association has forgotten that baseball is the national sport. Restoration of the baseball Junior Varsity team and the reorganization of fall practice would probably help. Indeed they are necessities if baseball is to gain back its former student support. As in hockey, however, the primary need is the recognition of a year-round coaching system for the future...
What the Student Union can gain, and what it can give to the student body, is a sound working knowledge of democratic procedure, rational debate, and intelligent compromise. It has made a praiseworthy effort to recruit men from all schools of thought, but the crucial test is whether it will now become an arena for indiscriminate strife, or an enlightened and diversified forum. "Every city and house divided against itself shall not stand," and the Student Union should put its house in order before it ceases to be of value and falls of its own weight...